All charges for the unauthorised use or for waste of water may be recovered, as water-rates, in addition to any penalty as decided by the Government on account of such use or waste.

Land deriving benefit from percolation liable to payment of water rate. 34. If it appears to a canal-officer-

1. (i) that any cultivated land within two hundred meters of any canal receives, by percolation or leakage from such canal, an advantage equivalent to that which would be given by a direct supply of canal-water for irrigation, or
2. (ii) that any cultivated land, wherever situate, derives by a surface-flow or by means of a well-sunk within two hundred meters of any canal after the admission of water into such canal, a supply of water which has percolated or leaked from such canal, he may charge on such land a water-rate not exceeding that which would ordinarily have been charged for a similar direct supply to land similarly cultivated. Explanation.- For the purposes of this Act, land charged under this section shall be deemed to be land irrigated from a canal.